Banner’s Pro Editor software allows users to program device status, colors, and animations for control via three discrete inputs. The application-based interface makes it easy to configure a light for a wide range of applications such as displaying machine warm-up time, indicating unique steps in an assembly process, showing distance and position information, and communicating multiple machine states. Pro Editor models are discretely controlled and ideal for users who do not have IO-Link, but who want control and customization to communicate information visually.

The IO-Link models allow for dynamic control—reacting to inputs from other devices—and have additional modes that the discrete units don’t. IO-Link enables users to change device parameters from the control system as needed, such as during product changeover, which reduces downtime and allows machines to accommodate greater product diversity. These models can be divided in up to 10 segments for applications like assembly guidance or pick-to-light.  They also offer unique LED color control to provide advanced users with total control.  The WLS27 Pro with IO-Link connects cleanly to IO-Link architecture and helps reduce costs, increase process efficiency, and improves machine availability.

The bright, high-quality light of the WLS27 Pro makes it a great illumination product. Its RGBW LEDs give clean, flicker-free white lit versus competitive models that create a mixed white from only RGB LEDs. The WLS27 Pro has a total of nineteen colors, thirteen colors plus six whites. This work light can be programmed to have bright white light for safety or efficiency during normal operation, and then to indicate other machine statuses, such as red for a stop condition. Additionally, advanced statuses allow the WLS27 Pro to indicate alarm states, show temperature, display position information, count for process verification, and display takt time.

The rugged IP69K design provides reliable indication in a wide variety of conditions, including harsh washdown, machining, and outdoor environments. The sealed lights are constructed with sturdy aluminum frames in a shatterproof copolyester housing, making them resistant to wet environments, impact, and breakage.

The WLS27 Pro offers illumination and multiple indication capabilities in a single device with EZ-STATUS® to simplify installation and improve ergonomics. EZ-STATUS® promotes faster response to status changes and reduces the risk of costly mistakes and accidents. Use its bright white light for illumination or colors for broad status information or maintain white illumination in the center of the light and convey status through colored ends.